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From: nazgul@alphalpha.COM (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Sun's Free Software
Message-ID: <901128163929.628@alphalpha>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:39:29 GMT
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I asked this question earlier, but evidently my followup got directed
to a newsgroup I don't read, so I'll ask it again. 

The clarification of Sun's offer included a list of requirements for
licensing the software.  As I remember it said you could only license
OpenWindows if you
    o Had a NeWS license prior to 1987
    o Had a SVR4 license
or a couple of other options.  As I remember, none of the
other options were particularly likely.

Is the SVR4 license requirement a *source* license requirement?

My reading of this was that there is no way in hell that I, or almost
anyone else on the net, can license this free software without
spending a very large amount of money (what does a source SVR4
license go for?).  Is that really true?  What were the other conditions?

I had a couple other questions too, but I've forgotten what they
were.  Presumbably someone can dig up my query on comp.windows.news,
or wherever it ended up, and answer them.

				-kee